And thou my minde aspire to higher things;_x000D_ _x000D_ Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.
Interpretation
Seek enrichment in intangible qualities rather than material wealth.
In this quote, Philip Sidney emphasizes the importance of aspiring to higher spiritual or intellectual pursuits instead of focusing on the accumulation of material wealth. He suggests that true richness comes from knowledge, wisdom, and virtues that remain valuable beyond the transitory nature of physical possessions.
In practice
In a graduation speech emphasizing personal growth, this quote could inspire graduates to seek knowledge over material success.
So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is bound to recite, that may the poet, if he list, with his imitation make his own, beautifying it both for further teaching and more delighting, as it pleaseth him; having all, from Danteβs Heaven to his Hell, under the authority of his pen.
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.
If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph.
In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.
If you can get good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift.
The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.
I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an ok person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.
Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her burdens, her needs - everything, because through them, she learns humility, realizes her weakness. Everything is a grace because everything is God's gift. Whatever be the character of life or its unexpected events - to the heart that loves, all is well.
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
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